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Cleveland is jonesing to be on the tour schedule again.

Looks Feadog but has a funny looking sticker on it. Sounds great!

http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhal ... an_flavin/

Billy Collins is my current favorite. I find myself often writing a poor man's imitation of Collins.

Hotblack wrote: I hate the way poetry seems to be pretentiously intoned in a very sombre manner. Radio 4 are brilliant at doing that. .

You probably haven't read enough poetry then. Lots of non-heavy, dark, somber stuff but you're right most of it can be.

I didn't look through them all but I hope they got Donncha O'Briain (sp?) in there

The converse thing I'll do too (which I learned from an experienced player) is on cuts to slightly press down before lifting off, almost like bending your knees before jumping, to get a cleaner separation

If you want to learn by ear on the D whistle Joanie Madden's 'Songs of the Irish Whistle' has it. I've been working on that version for a while

Bump--me too.

I have 'The Essential Guide...' and I cannot imagine what more a book could have.

FB would probably be a dying fad if only kids used it. But now their parents and grandparents use it and these people will probably keep it alive in some fashion, even if the cool people have moved on to a place where they can talk about their boyfriends and girlfriends and post pics of puking in th...

I have found the Oaks to be sometimes very hard to behead. I do the freezer/ hot water thing, and I tightly wrap 3 or 4 rubber bands on the barrel and a couple on the head for better grip and a little better torque. This helps a lot. When I had a Hoover Whitecap made for an Oak, Mack had me send him...

i found this the other day.

http://www.intermix.freeuk.com/modes_and_scales.htm

The abc you gave is in A mixolydian, A is clearly the base note, and the scale notes are the same as D major, therfore A mixolydian. In the Youtube clip Loreena McKennit sings it in D mixolydian, scale notes are same as in G major. Mixolydian is like a major scale, but with a flattened seventh. So ...

Yes and here is one place you can get a lot of them for free


http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

I am a fairly slow reader for some reason, and there are so many books I want to read that I simply do not re-read books. Having said that, I did re-read 'Johnny got His Gun' a year ago, the first time being when I was in high school. Iwanted to see if it affected me the same as it did then. Not so ...